Following yesterday’s announcement that The Cure will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2019, the buzz surrounding the timeless new wave rockers is strong. With an extensive European festival tour already on their calendar for 2019 (with more dates to be added soon), frontman Robert Smith has confirmed that a new album is in the works, marking their first in over a decade.
The Cure has released thirteen studio albums since 1979, with their most recent being 4:13 Dream in 2008. The band gained commercial success with “Let’s Go to Bed” (1982), “Just Like Heaven” (1987), “Lovesong” (1989), and “Friday I’m in Love” (1992), and have sold tens of millions of records to date.
In a recent interview with SiriusXM, Smith revealed the timeline for the pending album’s completion: “We’re going in about six weeks time to finish up what will be our first album in more than a decade. It’s very exciting times for us all around.”
After curating the 2018 Meltdown Festival, which featured Nine Inch Nails, Death Cab For Cutie, Black Moth Super Rainbow, and more in London, Smith felt “inspired to do something new” after “seeing all these new bands.”
You can listen to Robert Smith confirming a new album from The Cure in the audio clip below:
[Audio: SiriusXM Entertainment]
[H/T CoS]